Professional

Professional Development Programme
Aged 18 years and above Duration: 5 Days Course Code: PDP

The Professional Development Programme provides powerful experiences and reviews that identify strength and weaknesses, enhance existing abilities and initiate the development of new work related skills. The course is targeted at people from any level of employment who wish to improve their leadership, teamwork, management, communication skills and ability to contribute effectively to a team. Groups will plan, complete and review a range of high impact outdoor activities including team problem solving tasks, ropes confidence courses and overnight expeditions.

An important aspect of the PDP programme is the election of a "Management Team" who hold responsibility for all communication between the Outward Bound facilitator and the group members as well as the organisation of the group, control of equipment and time management. Thus all participants gain, on a rotation basis, the opportunity to experience leadership of the group in a dynamic learning environment.

Outward Bound Sabah's Professional Development Programme is the key to unlocking hidden potential. Participation can improve the productivity and effectiveness of individuals by instilling in them a team centered approach and understanding of how they can effectively lead or manage a group. The most natural and best retained training is by experience, by trial and error. To maximize the effectiveness of this style of learning, an environment is created where individuals feel that they can experiment, take risks and learn from mistakes as well as successes. The programme is based on a PLAN - DO - REVIEW cycle of activities allowing a progression of improvements to be attained. The insights gained can then be transferred back to the participants professional or personal life.

DAY		ACTIVITY	EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE
1	am	Arrive. Welcome Ice Breakers. Team Dynamics	Generate group spirit, increase interaction. Encourage planning and leadership in a creative and fully involved team.
	pm	Canoe Introduction Ridge Walk/Run	Overcoming fears, new experience. Pushing beyond self imposed limits
	eve	Course Expectations. Review of Day	Clarification of personal, group and programme objectives. Debrief of day and recognize learning points.
2	am	Basic First Aid. JUNGLE EXPEDITION	Improvement of Team Work, Leadership and Decision Making through an intense expeditionary experience.
2	eve	Overnight Camp Consensus Discussion.	Discussion of decision making methods and difficulties of reaching a consensus.
3	am	Return from Jungle Expedition & Review	Facilitation of learning points and discussion of teams development.
	pm	Self Programmed Abseil	Interpretation of instructions to successfully complete task requiring planning, trust, confidence and determination.
	eve	Leadership Workshop Introduction to Sailing	Discussion of Leadership styles and their effectiveness
4	am	Giant's Ladder Team Problem Solving	Effective planning, decision making and coordination within a group to achieve a single objective
	pm	SAILING Expedition	Shifting paradigms in constantly changing environment. Rotational leadership to effectively facilitate group efforts.
	eve	Island Camp. Debate. Review	Communication skills
5	am	Sail back to OBS.	Self Confidence and Trust in Group. Overcoming fears. Multi faceted project planning exercise requiring use of skills acquired during previous activities.
	pm	HIGH ROPES or RAFT BUILDING
	1700	Depart

"All trainees felt they had achieved a higher level of understanding of their own abilities and were looking forward to practising the human skills they learnt from Outward Bound, both in and outside of work environment." - Gary Yong, an OBS participant from Brunei Shell

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